Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1887-06-18
# ish il Good Brain Food.
NOT BRCAr 81 1T HAS MORE PHOSPHORUS But BECAUSE
1T THAN MEATS.

NOT BRcAr IT MORE PHOSPHORUS But BECAUSE
1T HAS LESS FAT THAN MEATS.
Prom the Century.
Even 81 nsh were richer In phosphorus than
meats or other food materials, this would not es-
taolsh It's superiority for the nutrition OF the
Drain or tho production OF Intellectual energy
But the re Is no proof OF any especial abundance
OF phos phorus In FISH, on the contrary an ex-
tended series OF analyses IN this laboratory have
IeseaH q proportions OF phosphorus in the flesh
OF our ordinary food fishes differing In no impor-
Gant gree from those which have been found TO
Occur IN the flesh of the other animals used for the
1000 q man
Ph1 Biologists tell Us that the way TO provide
for le welfare OF the brain is TO see Ihat me
rest fn the body is in good order. that. In other
wore ), the old proyerb OF "a sound mind in a
sour body Is SOUND doctrine. And they are
ketr .nS 10 tell US further that one way In which
DraI 4 work Is hindered is by bad dietary habits
as, ior instance, overlooking the digestive or
gan py taking too much food or the vice OF
over eating "a vice which We Americans by no
nes rs HonOpollZe a considerable part In this
eou ltry at least, and think in England and
am jng welI-to-do people on the Continent OF
EU Ope also, Is the vice OF fat eating. We are a
rae OF lat eaters. II any one doubts this /
IN Ak the statistics 10 be shown In succeeding
article viii convince him, unless he Is ready 10
oe ny The practically unanimous testimony or
sr.ch facts as have been able TO gather IN
zones ABOUT very naturally and is really due the
fertility OF our soil, the consequent abundance OF
1000 and the toothsoneness of food material, rich
In FATTY matters The RESULT OF this Is that the
quantity or Fat In the average Americans dietary
Is very Large indeed, mainly because OF the large
etoults Ol meats, Dutter, anu lard consumed, and
~ lar IL excess or the demands OF his body unless
ne Is engaged in very severe muscular work. or
exposed 10 extreme cold, or both. For people
with Sedenfary occupations, including the ma 1or-
ny OF oraiil-WUrAers, this simply means charging
the orgais IN with the burden OF getting rid of an
excess or IL aterfal This excess the psychologists
ana physicians assure US Is detrimental.
some kinds, Ike salmon. mackerel white fish
eno shad are quite Fat; but the flesh OF cod had
dock, bdsS. blue rsh, perch, founder indeed the
majority OF our most common food fishes have
extremely little OF fatty and oily matters. Now
u seems 10 me very reasonable TO assume that
brain-wor kers and other people who do hot have
great d. al OF muscular exercise may very adyan-
tageotlsiy substitute fish In the place OF portion
OF The Inc al which they would otherwise consume
am very well aware that such hygienic advice
might 90 me more appropriately from l physician
than iroLa chemist, and AIN therefore glad 10 be
abe TO quote from no less an authority than Sir
denry nOmpSon, Who urges 1.-The value OF nSh 10
the orai aworker' on the ground that IL contains,
In smaller proportion than meat, those materials
which, taken abundantIy, demand much physical
Iabor or their complete consumption, and which,
witAouI this, produce an unhealthy condition OF
Dooy, more or less Incompatible with the easy and
ect!Ee exercise OF the functions or the brain"